<p>hey i currently am a junior at one of the most prestigious highschools in the country and so thye let me double up precalculus and ap calculus bc. after struggling in the class and talking to my teacher (who suggested next term i transfer into ab) i went home and studied like crazyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy but still don't seem to be able to grasp the material or concepts or anything.</p>
<p>I think it would probably help me a lot if I transfer into AB calc next year but then I personally think I will be ruined for getting into any ivy league or anything.</p>
<p>My transcript would show one term of BC, followed by one term of AB. I think my grade would go from 75 to 95 but colleges would probably think i just can't handle college material....
ahhhhhhh im so screwed and my teacher doesnt seem to care
HELP ME PLEASEEEEEEEE</p>
<p>Obviously doubling up on those two particular courses would be stupid, unless you know what you are doing. Probably the reason you aren't doing well in Calc BC is because you lack intimate familiarity with the fundamentals. Just drop BC and choose between precalc and AB. Don't do both.</p>
<p>This seems almost stupid. Precalc and Calc BC simply cannot be taken simultaneously. Give yourself a break. Take Precalc this year and BC next year. You'll be FINE.</p>
<p>Why did you take BC without having had AB first? That's just stupid. It's one thing if you self-studied AB over the summer or something, but you can't just expect to leap into the second half of calculus without ever having established the basics.</p>
<p>ohnoes, a LOT of kids take BC without taking AB, myself included, because there's not too much of a difference between the two courses. but to ivybound, like the other posters said, it's impossible unless ur a math genius to take precalc and calc at the same time. drop BC this year, and don't worry plenty of seniors in BC get into ivies. last year we had 2 seniors in BC get into harvard and yale.</p>
<p>It does seem incribly stupid to take calc BC w/o taking AB. It seems like a waste of time to take BC and have to learn all the concepts of AB just to do the problems. For me, I have found BC to be pretty easy, but you need the foundation of AB to suceed.</p>
<p>What in the world?? You're taking precalculus, the class meant as a foundation for calculus, at the same time you're taking Calc BC, arguably the hardest math course available to high schoolers. Drop BC now; it's only going to get worse, especially when you get into rotating graphs to find volume, etc...Take precalc, then take AB or BC next year, whichever you think you're ready for.</p>
<p>i know it was very stupid but i thought i could handle it and i knew many many kids that were doing it also, doubling up bc and precal - because in my school ap calc bc is just honors compared to ap calc ab.......i talked to my teacher and there is NO way i can drop the course now because its already like half the year.....
i thought i would be able to handle it like everyone else.......
my only options are to stay in bc and try my best at an 80 avg and show colleges i work hard or to i guess transfer to ab and hopefully do well?? what do u say?
thank u all for responding however - it helps a lot
i realize what i did was the stupidest mistake i ever made and it wont happen in college ill make sure.....but i just need to get out of this problem now.....
thanks so far tho- it really helps</p>
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Why did you take BC without having had AB first? That's just stupid. It's one thing if you self-studied AB over the summer or something, but you can't just expect to leap into the second half of calculus without ever having established the basics.
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<p>My school has that program. A freshman had finished Algebra II and geometry in middle school and was in our class. Our class went directly from geometry soph year and in my junior year I learned Calc AB/BC/and PreCalc all at once. It was tough, but most of us managed to get 5s. You just need to work hard enough.</p>
<p>Wow, I can't believe they even let you take precalc and BC simultaneously. If there's no possible way to switch out of BC, I would study your ass off for the AP test as your grades might improve. If you get a 4 or a 5 your teacher might consider changing your grade to an A.</p>
<p>to the person that said it is ridiculous to take ab before bc... why?? i am currently a junior taking bc, without prior taking ab, they are mirrored courses with some multi variable calc in bc... but addressing the initial problem, i'd drop bc, and not take ab... just do precalc, and get a foundation first</p>
<p>If you skipped AB, they you must be moving at an ungodly slow speed. My BC class will be done learning new material in mid february, and we dont have class every other monday + tuesday. BC isn't that hard, but the foundation that AB gives is pretty important unless you relearn it all to do the new concepts in BC.</p>
<p>VashTheStampede, no one in my school has taken AB before BC, and we are moving at an ungodly fast pace. We will be done with the whole course in the nexxt 2 months or so, and spend all our time just practicing for the exam. You learn all the things from AB again in BC, so theres no reason to take AB first.</p>
<p>We never reviewed all of AB when we started BC - then again, we use a college book which covers all of AB/BC so we just picked up where we left off (my school is on the block system so we have 4 classes a semester, with AB covered first semester and BC second).</p>
<p>Wow, that sounds really hard (and slightly not smart, lol) but I admire you for trying to challenge yourself. I'm sure colleges will take into consideration the fact that you were taking precalc at the same time that you were taking AP Calc BC and will also commend your decision to challenge yourself.</p>
<p>At our school we take precalc junior year and then start next year as seniors in one huge calculus and then halfway through the first quarter the seniors with the highest grades are moved into BC and the other students finish out the year in AB.</p>
<p>if your school has a really good alg II class, you really won't need to take a precalc. i can see how some people would take BC and precalc, because precalc is just indepth alg II. make sure you understand trig and polar, parametric, and do a lot of practice problems in BC. try to stay afterschool and have some review sessions with ur teacher...im sure he willl be happy 2 help you with your problems.</p>